The superintendent of the Minneapolis public school system has announced that “black and brown” students, but not white students, will automatically have any proposed suspension reviewed. No word on red, yellow, or other colors. She wants a “25 percent reduction in disproportionality by the end of this school year; 50 percent by 2016; 75 percent by 2017; and 100 percent by 2018.” But no quotas, of course.
This is in response to pressure from the Obama administration for school districts to get their numbers right, racial-disparity-wise. This superintendent’s proposal is ridiculous, of course, but should come as no surprise, as it is the predictable (and predicted) result of the administration’s “guidelines” in this area.
This sort of racial discrimination is blatantly illegal. What’s more, the children who will be hurt the most when badly behaving students are not disciplined will be their classmates — who are themselves likely to be “black or brown.”